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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / T-38 Talon / Canadair CF-116
    Latest Model:QT-38A Talon
    Last Military Serial:591600 USN
    Construction Number:N.5113
    Latest Owner or Location:Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport (Williams AFB), Phoenix, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-38A-15-NO by Northrop at Hawthorne, California, USA.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1600.

    From Unknown to Circa 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 591600 as a DT-38A.

    Converted to a QT-38A.

    1978


    Photographer: Unknown

    3 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 591600 - QT-38A Talon - US Navy - China Lake / Naval Weapons Center

    Circa 1982

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to City of Mesa, Mesa, AZ.

    28 September 1995

    Placed on display with Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport (Williams AFB), Phoenix, AZ.
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    Noted derelict/dumped at the Williams Gateway airport.

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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